List of regencies and districts of South Sulawesi


The Districts of South Sulawesi are an administrative division for South Sulawesi, a province of Indonesia that is made up of regencies which are in turn divided into districts called Kecamatan.
Five years after independence, the government issued Law No. 21 of 1950, which became the basis of the legal establishment for the Sulawesi province. Ten years later, the government passed Law No. 47 of 1960 which endorsed the formation of the South/Southeast Sulawesi province. Four years after that, with Act No. 13 of 1964, the provinces of South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi were separated.
Forty years later, the South Sulawesi government was split into two, with the regencies of Majene, Mamasa, Mamuju, Pasangkayu, and Polewali Mandar were separated off into a new West Sulawesi province on 5 October 2004 under Act No. 26 of 2004.

Regencies

The remaining South Sulawesi Province is divided into 21 regencies and three independent cities, listed below with their areas and their populations as of the 2010 Census and 2015 Census.
NameArea Population
Census 2000		Population
Census 2010		Population
Census 2015		CapitalHDI
2018 Estimates
Selayar Islands Regency
1,199.91103,596122,055130,077Benteng0.660
Bulukumba Regency1,170.10352,419394,560410,241Bulukumba0.677
Bantaeng Regency397.06158,632176,699183,240Bantaeng0.677
Jeneponto Regency837.99317,588342,700355,446Bontosunggu0.633
Takalar Regency620.26229,718269,603286,596Pattallassang0.660
Gowa Regency1,802.08512,876652,941721,623Sungguminasa0.688
Sinjai Regency924.15204,385228,879237,966Sinjai0.662
Maros Regency1,538.44272,116319,002338,917Maros0.689
Pangkajene and Islands Regency
814.95263,565305,737323,304Pangkajene0.677
Barru Regency1,192.39151,085165,983171,140Barru0.700
Bone Regency4,593.38648,089717,682742,527Watampone0.650
Soppeng Regency1,337.99219,505223,826226,057Watansoppeng0.676
Wajo Regency2,394.15357,720385,109393,132Sengkang0.685
Sidenreng Rappang Regency 2,081.01238,419271,911289,482Pangkajene Sidenreng0.706
Pinrang Regency1,892.42310,833351,118366,583Pinrang0.706
Enrekang Regency1,821.41166,307190,248199,867Enrekang0.721
Luwu Regency2,940.51398,131332,482349,991Belopa0.696
Tana Toraja Regency2,149.67392,726221,081228,778Makale0.676
North Luwu Regency
7,365.51431,680287,472302,414Masamba0.687
East Luwu Regency
7,315.77***243,069275,132Malili0.721
North Toraja Regency
1,169.95*216,762225,362Rantepao0.684
Makassar 181.351,130,3841,338,6631,447,677Makassar0.817
Parepare 88.92108,258129,262138,804Parepare0.771
Palopo 254.57#147,932168,452Palopo0.773
Province Total46,083.947,159,1708,034,7768,512,608Makassar0.709

Districts

The 236 districts of South Sulawesi, and their regencies or cities in which they are situated, are as follows: